1. John Greyson was part of a loosely affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
20 Facts About John Greyson
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John Greyson is a professor at York University's film school, where he teaches film and video theory, film production, and editing.
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John Greyson was raised in London, Ontario, before moving to Toronto in 1978, where he became a writer for The Body Politic and other local arts and culture magazines, as well as a video and performance artist.
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John Greyson directed several short films, including The Perils of Pedagogy, Kipling Meets the Cowboy and Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers, before releasing his first feature film, Pissoir, in 1988.
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John Greyson's film was pulled from distribution when the estate of Kurt Weill objected to its use of the tune of Mack the Knife.
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John Greyson had originally received copyright permission to use the tune, but it was withdrawn, apparently because Weill's estate objected to the film's homosexual themes.
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John Greyson is best known for the feature-length films Zero Patience and Lilies.
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John Greyson has directed for television, including episodes of Queer as Folk, Made in Canada, and Paradise Falls.
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In 2007, John Greyson was the recipient of the Bell Award in Video Art.
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An incisive social and political critic, Mr John Greyson is in fact one of the leaders in the AIDS activist video movement, among others.
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Mr John Greyson has supported the practice in many ways and he influences many emerging artists.
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In 2013, John Greyson released Murder in Passing, a murder mystery series which aired as 30-second episodes on Pattison Outdoor Advertising's video screens in the Toronto Transit Commission subway system and as a web series.
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The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson was published in 2013.
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In 1996, John Greyson released his most famous film, Lilies, an adaptation of Michel Marc Bouchard's play Les feluettes, ou un drame romantique.
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In September 2009, John Greyson withdrew his short documentary, Covered, from the Toronto International Film Festival festival to protest the festival's inaugural City to City Spotlight on the city of Tel Aviv.
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John Greyson later posted a response to Lantos that was published in Rabble.
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John Greyson added that the suffering of both sides should be articulated.
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In summer 2011, John Greyson traveled to Greece to participate in the Freedom Flotilla II, specifically joining with the "Tahrir," the Canadian member of the Flotilla.
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In summer 2013, John Greyson traveled to Egypt, where he and Dr Tarek Loubani, a 33-year-old emergency room doctor from London, Ontario, were detained without charges, in a cell with 38 other people.
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John Greyson's partner is Canadian visual artist Stephen Andrews, who he has lived with since the 1990s.